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I know most people hate winter. And ice in winter is even worse. But how can you not admire something like this? (click to make it bigger!) I adore this tree. Even if it does leave squishy crab apples all over the ground in the fall. Check it out in the full glory of springtime: [...]
Carrie is modeling the bag I’m knitting for the knit mitten kit swap. It’s currently on it’s second trip through the wash cycle. It looked pretty good after the first trip, but it was a bit bigger than I’d planned and I thought it would be sturdier after a second felting. Hopefully it won’t be [...]
After seeing mention of bloglines all over creation, I’m finally going to try it out. I switched from using Safari to using Firefox a couple of months ago, and I never re-subscribed to all the RSS feeds I was watching. I didn’t even import my enormous bookmark list, and surprisingly I haven’t really missed them. [...]
OK, now that I’ve played for 5+ hours of auditions, I have West Side Story music permanently embedded in my brain. (This condition, of course, will last through the end of the show – and probably a bit longer than that – in late April. Sigh.) Can’t you hear it? Snap, snap, snap, snap… Anyway. [...]
Uh-oh. Somehow the days (weeks, months, etc.) have gotten away from me. I didn’t get started on my bag for the mitten kit swap until Saturday. So I have to finish knitting it, felt it, embellish it, fill it with goodies, and mail it by a week from tomorrow. The good news is that it’s [...]
Carrie’s all set for winter now – I put the finishing touches on her hat, scarf & mitten set last night. Of course, I still haven’t finished mine…
On the twelfth day of Christmas, I (finally) give to you… Pictures of all of the gifts I made! Next year, in addition to starting early, I’m going to document my projects as a go along. I forgot to take pictures of some of the things I gave away. As silly as it sounds, that [...]
Or, why it’s occasionally a good idea to actually read the pattern.. I think I’ve done something to anger the knitting gods. And it all started with a quest for a hat to match Carrie’s winter coat. I had no idea when I bought it that every shade of pink yarn in my stash would [...]
I went back to they gym today. It’s been nearly a month – I think I went once in December. I did their core training class, which I’ve only done once before – somehow it’s really hard to get to the gym, drop Carrie in the child-care room, and stash my bag in a locker [...]
Darn it, I’ve been mentally saving up cute things Carrie has been saying lately, and now that I sat down to blog about them I can’t remember most of them. One thing that was especially cute was New Year’s Eve: Lisa and Greta and their families came over for the afternoon. Carrie was thrilled to [...]